Poems

Monday, March 15, 2010

Shellac: The Schoolbag Story

Her father never wanders
that how do stars shine in school
and every time she looks at her heliograph
in broken riffed mirror
she can see her damn egoistic beautified ugliness.

its the ordure of odium in her rough clothes
that grills the her slummy poverty.

the sanctimonious devil is overdosed
within the incinerated book of her schoolbag.

Her schoolbag can never see her malnourished spits.
Her schoolbag can never sing her the tunes of salty sweat.
Her schoolbag can never listen to her precinct footsteps.

Her schoolbag can never carry her school.

2.
HUMPTY DUMTY SAT ON THE WALL
HUMPTY DUMTY HAD A GREAT FALL

Breathing a fugue to collide at pinprick
no one delivers the tangy taste of roadside kulfi
to her mouth.
The Finance Commission can never bridge the gap
between her childhood and the kulfi.

Who was Alice?
and where was Red Riding hood going?
-its mandatory questions that burns her eyes.

Icosahedrons culture struck above her ground
emigrating impetuous loads of
twigs and branches on her head
and the wind shall borrow
few of her tears from the village well
and the stars shall scratch
whispers of her dream song from her bed.

She can never plunge her nerves
watching Tom and Jerry fighting each other
- cause she herself fights
with unresolved arithmetic
holding broomstick in her hand.

Her schoolbag can carry the smell of her body
but it can never carry the unexposed desires
within that body.

3.

JACK AND JILL WENT UP THE HILL

Layers of horoscope are liquidities in the cake
waning the plutonic bastard
and scandalizing few childish imageries
of sky, sea and earth.

Pageantry alphabets remains intoned
on a display board of five star hotel
which illustrates
an upper class booty shake and discotheques.

Did she hurt her face?
or is it the lips that one bloomed
or fatally drooped to ellipsis?
How can blood and urine be cocktailed?
on psychedelic monolith of her hair snip?

Her schoolbag can carry her lunch box
but it can never carry the hunger of her starry nights.